INTERCULTURALITY AND ANTI-RACIST EDUCATION: A DECOLONIAL MEETING AT THE TERREIRO ÀÁFIN OSUMARE
Abstract
In this article, we discuss the growing urgency in enforcing Law 11.645/2008, which alters Law 9.394/1996 and modifies Law 10.639/2003, mandating the teaching of African Brazilian and Indigenous History and Culture. This subject was discussed in the "Interculturality and Education: Decolonial Afro-Amerindian Knowledge" course of the Post-Graduation in Education program of the Federal University of Triangulo Mineiro (PPGE-UFTM). We discussed some activities we experienced at the ÀÁfin Osumare terreiro with master Yá Bia D’Osumare, who taught us to blacken ourselves. In conversation with the master during the semester, we questioned this curriculum component and elaborated a Social Bionarrative (BIONAS) that is also an Open Educational Resource (OER). We propose the intersectionality of gender and race as a result of these encounters, as we see the exercise of citizenship and resistance as a tool for Black empowerment. We conclude that, through this knowledge, it is possible to rethink our practices, blacken and empower ourselves as Black women and men, to promote intercultural, decolonial, and anti-racist education in our professional activity.
